Big data, cities, and GIS

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March 27, 2018

“Big data”

Source: AdAge.com

“Big data”

Source: Dallas Business Journal

GIS and big data

Industry examples:

  • Sensors & “smart cities”
  • Transportation (ride sharing & self-driving cars)
  • Cell phone data/location analytics
  • Deep learning/anything Google does

Sensors and “smart cities”

Uber

  • 40 million rides/month; 2 billion rides as of 2016

  • Data: Uber Movement

Self-driving cars

Self-driving cars

Source: Sanborn Maps

Self-driving cars

Source: The New York Times

Cell phone data

Cell phone data and location tracking

Google Maps!

Deep learning and Google Maps

Try it out: Google’s Vision API